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	Bruno de Finetti
		Bruno de Finetti (1906 - 1985) was an Italian probabilist and statistician, noted for the "operational subjective" conception of probability.
		De Finetti proposed a thought experiment along something like the following lines: You must set the price of a promise to pay $1 if there was life on Mars 1 billion years ago, and $0 if there was not, and tomorrow the answer will be revealed.
		De Finetti is also noted for de Finetti's theorem on exchangeable sequences of random variables.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/br/Bruno_de_Finetti.html (172 words)

	Bruno de Finetti Centenary Conference
		The International Symposium is one among the several scientific events organized in the occasion of the Centenary of the Birth of Bruno de Finetti (Innsbruck, June 13, 1906 - Rome, July 20, 1985).
		Bruno de Finetti's contributions to Probability, Applied Mathematics, Foundations of Probability and Statistics, Economics, Financial and Actuarial Mathematics have had a fundamental role in the development of these fields.
		His contributions continue to be revisited and, in many cases, have been discovered to have foresight and fertile suggestions for contemporary research.
	www.mat.uniroma1.it /ricerca/convegni/deFinetti (236 words)

	Bruno de Finetti Summary
		Bruno de Finetti, an Italian mathematician, was born in Innsbruck, Austria.
		In 1947 de Finetti was appointed to the chair of financial mathematics in Trieste.
		De Finetti was born in Innsbruck, Austria and studied mathematics at Milan University.
	www.bookrags.com /Bruno_de_Finetti (1951 words)

	Bruno de Finetti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bruno de Finetti (June 13, 1906 - July 20, 1985) was an Italian probabilist and statistician, noted for the "operational subjective" conception of probability.
		De Finetti proposed a thought experiment along the following lines (described in great detail at coherence (philosophical gambling strategy)): You must set the price of a promise to pay $1 if there was life on Mars 1 billion years ago, and $0 if there was not, and tomorrow the answer will be revealed.
		De Finetti was not the first to study exchangeability but he put the subject on the map.
	www.abacci.com /wikipedia/topic.aspx?cur_title=Bruno_de_Finetti (674 words)

	Bruno de Finetti - Biography - Italiansrus.com
		De Finetti proposed a thought experiment along the following lines (described in great detail at coherence (philosophical gambling strategy)): You must set the price of a promise to pay $1 if there was life on Mars 1 billion years ago, and $0 if there was not, and tomorrow the answer will be revealed.
		De Finetti is also noted for de Finetti's theorem on exchangeable sequences of random variables.
		De Finetti was not the first to study exchangeability but he put the subject on the map.
	www.italiansrus.com /biography/definetti.htm (511 words)

	De Finetti's theorem
		In probability theory, de Finetti's theorem explains why exchangeable observations are conditionally independent given some (usually) unobservable quantity to which an epistemic probability distribution would then be assigned.
		De Finetti's theorem states that the probability distribution of any infinite exchangeable sequence of Bernoulli random variables is a "mixture" of the probability distributions of independent and identically distributed sequences of Bernoulli random variables.
		Another way of stating the conclusion of de Finetti's theorem is that the Bernoulli random variables are conditionally independent given the tail sigma-field.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/d/de/de_finetti_s_theorem.html (554 words)

	De_Finetti biography
		Bruno de Finetti was born of "Italian parents, Austrian citizens" as he himself wrote in an autobiographic note accompanying the book [Scritti (1926-1930) (Padova, 1981).',1)" onmouseover="window.status='Click to see reference';return true">1] edited by his former students and friends on the occasion of his 75th birthday.
		At the time Bruno de Finetti received his degree, a position was already waiting for him in Rome at the Italian Central Statistical Institute, founded and directed by Corrado Gini.
		Bruno de Finetti's interest in economics was innate and led him, during his first year at Milan Polytechnic, to attend the lectures given there by Ulisse Gobbi.
	www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk /Biographies/De_Finetti.html (1136 words)

	Chapter 5: Probabilism and Induction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The estimation theorem, and de Finetti's laws of large and small numbers, are especially accessible parts of probabilism's solution to the new problem of induction As the theorem and the law are consequences of the axioms (3) (5) of probability logic, this solution can be seen as borrowing its credentials from those axioms.
		De Finetti's subjectivism implies that the basic axioms governing est (or, if you prefer, the corresponding axioms for prob) are all the universally valid principles there are, for this logic.
		De Finetti also omits axiom (5), presumably on the ground that the estimates of magnitudes are to represent estimates of the utilities you expect from them, where the estimated utility est X need not be measured in the same units as X itself, e.g.
	www.princeton.edu /~bayesway/ProbThink/Chapter5.html (5363 words)

	>Bruno de Finetti Collection
		Bruno de Finetti was an Italian probabilist and statistician, noted for the "operational subjective" conception of probability.
		He provided significant contributions to the theory and the foundations of probability, and his work laid the foundation for the modern subjectivist interpretation of probability.
		The papers include de Finetti’s student notebooks, research papers, lecture and teaching notes, professional and administrative records, newspaper clippings, personal and professional correspondence, and volumes of books from his personal library.
	www.library.pitt.edu /libraries/special/asp/finetti.html (92 words)

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